July 28, 2011

Jackie Ng posted a great post on Mapguide application development tips that I wanted to share with you – some great tips for anyone starting out with Mapguide development or even seasoned pros! I especially enjoyed his thoughts on antique browsers =) Thanks Jackie! I have a couple of things to add to his list. My first addition to his list would be Chrome. I did have a few problems with firebug causing random ajax errors to occur in the Mapguide javascript which prompted me to switch to Chrome and its development tools. I have not looked back…

The other thing I have to add is ReSharper 6.0. Every .NET developer should have this incredible toolset. It really does enhance the Visual Studio IDE. The javascript/ajax support is great with some syntax highlighting, the .NET refactoring and code generation tools are huge productivity enhancements once you get them figured out. I couldn’t live without the navigation and on-the-fly code analysis tools. The built-in de-compiler can be incredibly handy too, and ties right in with the navigation tools.

If you are into Mapguide dev, I strongly encourage you to check out Jackie’s post – and become a regular reader of his blog.

July 25, 2011

It’s been an insane month. Just wanted to take a moment to let my friends, colleagues and my loyal readers know that my wife popped out our first child the other day. July 12th at 2:10 am Ms. Georgia Laine Pawliuk-Maidlow was born and let me tell you she is full of awesome! Both Mom and Babby are doing great. Both Mom and Dad are both pretty tired =) Here is a picture for your viewing enjoyment =P